Five Media Spins to Watch for During Obama Visit

The events of the Arab Spring in a place like Egypt, or the Arab Winter in areas such as Syria and Libya, should have closed the book on the argument that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is the key to all Middle East affairs.

As one Arab state after another saw its citizens rise up against their oppressive leaders, the real problems at the heart of the Arab world were revealed, and they had nothing to do with Israel.

Some media outlets, however, refuse to give up on the long-held belief that solving the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will have a ripple effect on the rest of the region. Haaretz put its own twist on the issue, opining that with the instability in Syria and beyond,

the long held view that the Israeli-Palestinian track can become an instrument for calming the area, soothing antagonism towards the U.S and even assisting in the formation of a U.S.-led anti-Iranian coalition, is bound to become doubly attractive.

It wouldn’t be surprising if some media attempt to link Obama’s visit with the view that reviving the peace process has global implications. It will be harder for them to prove, however, how peace between Israel and the Palestinians will calm the civil war in Syria.

5. Over-hyping tensions between Obama and Netanyahu.

It’s no secret that relations between Obama and Netanyahu have been cool at best, and even somewhat hostile at times.

But despite the obvious tensions between the two in the past, it’s still possible for the media to overplay the issue. Allies have disagreements over policy,but it’s not for the media to sensationalize the issue for the sake of higher newspaper sales.

The Obama administration has been careful to avoid pressuring Netanyahu publicly on peace or Iran, at least during the run-up to the visit. To focus on past relations between the two leaders as one of the main story lines of the visit would be lazy journalism.

Don’t let the press distort the meeting between Netanyahu and Obama so that it fits one of the pre-packaged narratives peddled by the media. And if you see any of the above news spins, be sure to lodge your complaint with the news outlet.

Jew, I trust that when the bully’s broke your nose, that you gave a good kicking to their bollocks, as I used to do. It never stopped, the bullying, but they knew, the first few would be hurt, one was sent to hospital with his bollocks in a twist!

also, I heard a rumour which is of course maybe not even half true, nevermind bout that, cuz if its only a quarter true, it’s still NOT bad AT ALL:

da IRS is SENDING MONEY to ISRAEL. FOR THAT, I SALUTE the IRS.

But there MUST be fair ways, by which the SAME revenue (profit) can be made — in order ta REALLY use money for GOOD, FOR REALLY TRULY non-corrupt, humanitarian purposes, which are transparently monitored by any individual who wants to check on that directly online. Not only stupid TV cameras. I want all online. Médecins sans frontières protected by online cams. BAM.

any bad stuff happens, and we help. WE ARE the world. That vid, song, was often ridiculed. its’a good song. ! V4USA.

At the same time, almost, already since years, or, only at his beginnings and mid-phases, Alex Jones put out TERRIBLE antisemitic-SEEMING (!) “docus”, in which he SLAMMED KISSINGER, GREENSPAN.

He should more speak about that AARON RUSSO, who did a VIDEO INTERVIEW in which Russo REALLY politely, but descidly STOOD AGAINST that ALSO LIKE RUSSO HIMSELF JEWISH head of the IRS, the US “internal revenue service”, which is a two-faced org:

It DOES on one side ACT HIGHESTLY abusively and is a half CRIMINAL org, stealing money by actually illegal, direct and unapportioned direct income taxes, which are prohibited by the very first few amendments of the US constitution.

Also, what seems important regarding US-Israel relationships also on the “low” level of not only normal, but (“)ALTERNATIVE(“) People:

Some “alternative” Dude told me lately, “Alex Jones is A ZIONIST”, to which I replied in nice fashion, that other one even having told me before of his clearly Jewish ancestry: “Ah, that’s only the good American instict to protect ISRAEL, you know.” By that alone, I totally put him OUT of his CLOUDS. When I told him I KNOW ALL bout ALEX JONES (“an all”), he looked around the soundcave we were in and seemed to severely doubt some or even most of his colleagues who seemed to have told him I knew nothing.

And don’t get me wrong either: Those christians at “whyisrael” are only nice, because they seem to “have other plans” for Israel. I clearly don’t trust them.

The Christian support for Israel is mostly reasonable, and not based on religious fanatical institutions at all.

BUT there are some “side-liners”, side-phenomenons, which display themselves here as this ludicrous “whyisrael DOT org”, I don’t know where THEY those people that do this site there, stem from, what they are and want.

Only a secular, traditional, but not overly for religion caring Jew may rule Israel. Golda and Bibi and Benny were all that. Golda wasn’t as bourgeouis as Ben Gurion, but he was less than ROBESPIERRE .\\\ HA

As a Christian, the only plans I have for Isreal is one of a continued,(God willing) support and Love. The Bible tells us that God loves his people Isreal and has an everlasting covenant with them. God has given me and many,many believers a heart for Israel, and we only ever,desire that his people will return to him and accept that yeshua is Isreals Messiah……( there is no hidden agenda) the book of Isaiah gives us the revelation of who Isreals messiah, will be-Isaiah 9:6-7:

For unto us a child is born, to us a son is given, and the government will be on his shoulders. And he will be called the Wonderful Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace.
Of the increase of his government and peace there will be no end. He will reign on David’s throne and over his kingdom, establishing and upholding it with justice and righteousness from that time on and forever. The zeal of the Lord Almighty will accomplish this……..May the Lord bless and protect you. Amen.

that is my “propehcy” as opposed to some ridiculous christian fanatic sudo-”religious” site called “whyisrael DOT org”, who make totally ridiculous claims which no one who has a brain and uses it will ever take serious. it’s drastic, what rubbish all exists on the net. “whyisrael”? because christians have no say there, nor muslims (should, but do, sadly).

Not STUPID DUMB ULTRA-ORTHODOX, but

SECULAR Jews have to rule ISRAEL, MY COUNTRY !!!

Netanjahu does NOT, as other jews told me, “listen, have to listen” to ORTHODOX jews’ voices in politics. For me, they have NO voice. Period. Here, I’m a bigot. I don’t change my attitude.

hey, I am not and nowhere upheaving to injustified violence to anyone — to anyone who does not exempt violence (of extreme kind) unto any others. Period. This phrase has its logical cohesion. I’d strongly say.

You gotta step over some personal quarries sometimes, — BUT ONLY there, where the other one with whom you had a row, is REALLY okay, in the BIG sense.

until the end of jiang zemin’s rule in china, china’s government was not okay. by far not. it was and largely still is NAZI. NAZI. I hope all non-Jews who come here to read, know, what “NAZI” means: ALSO THEIR death. so if we jews are defeated, the real devil will enter this world: then, death to all people will be. that is so.:\

All that was good in the 60ies bout USA, must and does return with Obama. Okay so he’s got a BOTCHED, failing mid-east “philosophy” of a sudopeace with would endanger Israelis evry day.

Why Obama doesn’t demand of the Palestinians to abolish hamas and hizbolla, why Obama is SHRIEKINGLY OPPOSING McCain’s suggested action by USA in Syria, those are questions which I cannot answer and don’t have any answer to.

Is the anti-drone critics correct or not, ethically? Are Americans too leftist — or correct? I don’t know!

No really, IT IS a REAL (!) HARD, VERY VERY HARD discussion BETWEEN ALL ARTISTS, if we CAN win over SWASTIKAS with LOLLIPOPS in our hands. MANY pussy riot-loving artists will now paint a BIG (armed) LOLLIPOP that CRAPS upon a brown swastika. that’s cool. that’s in my sense. The “armed” in parentheses is the most important thingy.

What no sane and reasonable and anti-fascist human Being ever wants, is arms, weapons, in the hands of nazis, of fascists like hizbolla hamas jihad alkaida taliban boko haram janjaweed and any neonazi groups like also the KKK. NO weapons for those and any criminal gangs of clear murderers.

And yes, here, WE have to give OUR lives, mine too, against jihad.period.

norway, so the big cnn and other media, have chosen “the way of tolerance”, and “cling” to it.

to their own demise.

this has nothing to do with slidderin down a track where we would become like nazis.

that problem DOES exist in central europe (switzerland), where rightwing parties want to give foreigners who apply for asylum even less money (less than 8 dollars a day, where living costs are much higher than in germany or usa), and where the “SVP” nazi party spreads anti-Blacks-propaganda of hitler. modern people hate those rightwing extremist parties.

the opposite in israel: as in usa and norway, all too tolerant and weak. say I. If we wanna combat swastikas with lollipops… please ://

all the world, i know, will scream: but this mother is DESPERATE. untrue. she is like that father in “TAKEN”, the movie with Liam Neeson, where (arab) SEX-SLAVE-TRAFFICKERS-RAPISTS-MURDERERS kidnap an American’s daughter, kidnap hundreds of tourist girls and rape them and push them fuill of HEROINE and make them into slaves for sex. As Liam Neeson does it much BETTER than in the MUCH (!) more SENSELESS movie “Rambo 2,3″, the one IS nice and talks against police abuse, — I would like Liam in the “new rambo” kill all those rapists. One by one. Without mercy. I would also electrify this sex-slave.gang-leader son of that then angry dad,he brought them up by violence. kill nazis. period. over.

Sadly, that is not the law of Israel.Israel has no death penalty.That should once be told to the press. Well, I have criticised Norway’s government and law structures there sharply, where Norway has no death penalty. So I am against general no-death-penalty. I am likewise against its application to potential innocents.

This palestinian mother who sent three of her kids to die as “martyrs” in systematical (!) murder-suicide “organisations” like hizbolla, hamas, alkaida jihad etc, this mother is a murderer and if you ask me, has to be treated like that. Which we can’t expect of hizbolla/hamas palestinian “authorities”,which have in 2006 conquered gaza by shooting down Palestinians. hamas=nazi

a) the hamas is not a “herd of elephants”. elephants are nice, peaceful animals. I know what you mean, friend up there, but elephants is the wrong word. the hamas is no animal. but a nazi. a massmurderer. and massmurderers need to be murdererd or they will murder all others. period.

b) I quote HR: ” The AP got the facts straight, however, noting that the Palestinians did not take advantage of the freeze.”

hamas & hizbolla upheave palestinians to destroy israel. they don’t want no peace, nor “palestinian” nazis like mothers who send their kids to kill Jews. I would kill this mother right now, period. she is a murderer. death penalty for murderers. that’s MY law. period.

Motti: Which misconception? Which illusion? So what if Amos is a left-winger? What has this to do with the validity of his arguments? You need to tackle these head on, one by one, avoiding a pathetic argumentum ad populum qualifier such as ‘As a Jew.” . As a Jew you are part of a great rational tradition that embraces love of truth and fairness and rises up against injustice- this from the time that we emerged from the Tigris and Euphrates to be enslaved by Rome. Yes, we are outnumbered. Yes, we are surrounded by hatred, but we still want our kids to grow up in peace.
I am fed up with the attitude of “my country right or wrong” If my country is wrong, then it is up to me to say so.

I become really annoyed to be told, as a Jew, where I may or may not live. If I am allowed to live in your town, wherever that may be, why should I be barred from living in Judea or Shomron?

To bar Jewish people from even visiting many areas of the Islamic controlled, which once contained Jewish people in their ancient lands, prior to Christianity and Islam, is nothing more than absolute rabid racism. nothing more, nothing less.

Andrew, I met with Amos Oz on his kibbutz many years ago as a volunteer. He is an extreme leftwinger, I am not. Your arguements contain many misconceptions, if you and others wish to accpet the illusion, that thenis your choice. As a Jew, I do not.
If the majority of Spanish speaking Americans in the south west felt that they now wanted that area for themselves, would the US Administration accept it? Of course not! The “Fakestinians” want the whole land as part of the great Islamic empire. Jews have been ethnically cleansed from most of the Islamic lands and Christians face the same struggle today. The so called west bank will be Jew free. Is that your intention?.

There cannot be one state because Israelis and Palestinians cannot become one happy family (“they are not one and they are not happy.”) So “the only solution is turning the house into two smaller apartments.” Two states, absolutely, are the only answer. Palestinians and other Arabs once treated Israel like a passing infection: If they scratched themselves hard enough it would go away. Israel treated Palestine as no more than “the vicious invention of a pan-Arabic propaganda machine.” These illusions have passed. Reality now compels a compromise — “and compromises are unhappy, there is no such thing as a happy compromise.”
(Amos Oz, ibid – a sane voice in a crazy world!)

“Building settlements in occupied territories was the single most grave error and sin in the history of modern Zionism, because it was based on a refusal to accept the simple fact that we are not alone in this country….The Palestinians for decades also refused the fact that they are not alone in this country. Now, with clenched teeth, both sides have recognized this reality and that is a good basis.’..
(Amos Oz, NYT interview, 28.1.13)

JJF.Thanks for getting back to me. The whole business of who owns the land, as you well know, is a highly contentious issue, with strong arguments on both sides. And don’t forget the “right of return”. My understanding is that the Palestinians offered a quid pro quo – recognise the “ right of return, “and we will recognise the state of Israel. An impossible demand? Maybe. This whole business is massively complex, but the one sure thing is that what should concern both sides now is not the past, but the present.
That means starting with the settlers, and the continuous build-up of settlements on the West Bank
which is the worst possible international publicity for Israel that in turn has led to a new wave of anti-Semitism.Would it lead to peace? Maybe not, but at least it would kick-start talks which otherwise are unlikely to get underway.

If the “Palestinians” return to Israel, there will be no Israel left to be recognised.

It may seem counter intuitive, but the best way to achieve peace is for Israel to build where it wants to. When the Arab leaders in the West Bank realise that they might actually lose something, they might be willing to negotiate. As long as they have to do nothing except sit back and let the world put one sided pressure on Israel, there will be no peace talks.

When they see that the land they want to steal is being heavily populated by its true owners, they might be willing to talk as a damage limitation exercise. Of course, the Jews are the true Palestinians and they do not need to give anything.

I am a strong supporter of Israel and I see no justification whatsoever for the continued expansion of the settlements. Will they affect the peace process? Of course they will, because Abbas and other Palestinian leaders will refuse to discuss a two-state solution whilst the settlers -now numbering in excess of 300,000 -continue to pile in to what everyone recognises as Palestinian land.
The omens for peace are less than favourable because Netanyahu is silent and Obama shows every sign of pussyfooting.

@Mike Daniels. It should read Jews with a capital J, and a comma should appear after the word however. However (please note correct English), you are only displaying even more your appalling ignorance and rabid attitude towards the Jewish people.
You should keep on this site and read more. Perhaps then, you might relinquish your racist attitude and become more knowledgeable about real time world events.
The Jewish people have been the target for murdering people long enough, as you must surely appreciate. Enough is enough. Defending ourselves is not a crime, even if it means killing others to defend ourselves and to survive.
Tough, if you are unable to accept this attitude!